they are going to invade the united states destroy us and recolonize us. what are we going to do? we lose to a handful of canadians and now we have tens of thousands of veterans who beat napoleon. ironic that the british plan an invasion. a northern prong coming from candidate in late champlain a central prong coming from chesapeake into washington and baltimore in the southern prong that will cut the country in half. the northern prong in august of 1814. the northern prong march is a massive army may be the biggest army ever assembled on the continent. we have general mccollum in plattsburgh with 1500 men. the british are going to attack us in lake champlain. they decide to hit us on the lake first. why? part pride. old ironsides in 20-something lieutenants are beating the british so the british want to destroy champlain and the soldiers are watching from the high ground before they easily overrun are for. on lake champlain they have a young officer named mcdonald and he has two ships maybe 12 or 14 cannons, two ships with a cannons and a handful of gunboats. that's a fishing vot